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I accidentally plugged my USB mouse into my eSata port... it works?
I'm on a Thinkpad T510 and I accidentally plugged my Razor USB mouse into the eSata port not realizing my error because it has been working fine this whole time. Does this seem a little odd?
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What is the rationale behind safely removing USB media from windows PCs? [duplicate]
Quite often when I'm in a rush, I automatically pull out a USB pendrive or USB cable from an external hard drive from my desktop PC or laptop, without right-clicking on the safely remove icon in the ...
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16 GB USB flash drive capacity down to 938 MB
After writing the FreeNAS IMG to a 16 GB USB flash drive, I can now only use 938 MB. I used the Win32 Disk Imager tool to write the IMG to the device. Then later, when I inserted the the USB drive ...
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Install Windows 7 from USB flash drive
I have an ISO image of the Windows 7 installation DVD, but I can't burn it to CD or DVD. I have an empty flash drive with plenty of space. Is there any way I can put the ISO image on it and install ...
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Create a bootable USB drive from a DMG file on Windows
A Mac machine needs to be reformatted with Lion. I backed up the Lion dmg file when I purchased it via the Mac App Store.
I now need to create a bootable USB drive from the DMG file but I need to be ...
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Why can't I delete all partitions on a flash drive in Windows 7?
Recently I purchased an ADATA C802 8GB flash drive. Since the drive was new I decided to run some of the HD Tune Pro (v4.50) performance tests on it, mostly just for the heck of it.
To avoid ...
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How to find out which USB port is USB 3.0?
In my laptop (a Lenovo y470 ) there are three USB ports. One of those is USB 3.0 others are USB 2.0 . I do not know which one is what. When I copy data from my External HDD it transfers at 38MB/s from ...
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External HDD is always in use when trying to safely remove
I have a WD 1TB Elements external hard drive, and every time I use the Windows 7 "safely remove" feature, it gives me a dialog telling that a process is using the disk.
Using Sysinternals Process ...
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What can cause a USB 3.0 port to revert back to USB 2.0?
Say I have a USB 3.0 device, connected with a USB 3.0 cable, to a USB 3.0 port with the correct drivers on a Windows 7 computer. Bandwidth and performances are as expected for USB 3.0.
Now I replace ...
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Can't boot from USB - even with BIOS set correctly
I can't boot from USB even though the BIOS is set to boot from USB first. Windows Boot manager somehow seems to be taking precedence. I have Windows 7, Linux Mint and Ubuntu installed on my hard-drive....
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Why does Windows 7 ask for additional drivers when installing from a USB 3.0 drive?
I just bought a new config ( ASUS p8z68-v lx, i5-2500k + ram and new graphic card ).
Coming back and installing it in my old computer, I just saw that my DVD player was on IDE (yup…).
So, I needed to ...
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Show USB speed for all devices in Windows 7
I am using Windows 7 and would like to see which USB versions each attached USB device is using (1.1 or 2). How can I do this?
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Are USB unplug events logged in Windows 7? (When was my mouse stolen?)
I know this sounds kind of ridiculous, but someone stole my mouse from my cubicle.. I came to work in the morning and was about to give my mouse a little shove to wake up the monitor, but it wasn't ...
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When middle-clicking links, why does my browser sometimes open two tabs?
For around a year I have had an issue with my USB mouse's middle button action whilst browsing the web. If I use the middle button to open any link, about 5% of the time it will open two new tabs ...
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Can I install Windows OS (Windows 7) on a removable USB hard drive? [duplicate]
I wanted to take a sneak peek at Windows 7 so I thought of installing it. I have Windows Vista on my laptop which came pre-installed with it. I didn't want to mess with it.
So I created a partition (...
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